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PFC Yule – 12/17/2017

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Sunday December 17, 1 – 3 PM: Family Yule Celebration
At: Brigham Hill Community Farm, 37 Wheeler Road, North Grafton 01536
Fee: $5 per craft item. Adults are welcome to make crafts too.

The PFC honors the Sabbats with mythology, stories, games, snacks, a craft and a child friendly ritual. While we endeavor to come up with crafts for little hands and all abilities, all parents are expected to work along with their child during the craft.

Parents must stay with their kids. If your child has specific food allergies, please bring your own snack. All are welcome – not only those with kids!

Directions: Brigham Hill Community Farm, Grafton

 

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Tween & Teen Esbat Group – 12/9/17


The Tween and Teen Esbat group will meet for our public ritual on Saturday 9th December at 6pm. $5 suggested donation

A small pot luck will follow ritual. Because we meet at a traditional dinner time, making sure you and your kids have a little snack before you arrive is a good idea. Please no soda, nuts, peanuts, or candy. Bring a cold dish or something in a crock pot.

This public event is open to families with children aged 10 to 18 who are interested in taking part in rituals. Many of the tweens who participate take turns as the high priest or priestess of the evening, working with one of the adults running the group.

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15th Annual Coffeehouse and Benefit Auction – 11/18/17

Date:         Saturday, November 18, 2017
Location:   Unitarian Church of Marlborough and Hudson (click for directions)
Hours:       6pm – 10pm
Admission: only $5!


Bring cash, checks, OR plastic to purchase great homemade refreshments and stunning auction treasures.

Doors open at 6 PM for snacking and browsing. As the date approaches, we will post photos of performers, auction items, and raffle items!

The SEF’s Annual Coffeehouse and Benefit auction celebrates the post harvest season of dark starry nights, warm fellowship, and bright music. It’s hard to believe that this will be our 15th Annual Coffeehouse and Benefit Auction! Our coffeehouses to date have raised over $30, 000 for the ongoing programs of the Society of Elder Faiths.

The auctions will feature ritual objects, statuary, handcrafted jewelry, original artwork, and more! Light refreshments (coffee, tea, home-made baked goods, and many sumptuous savory snacks) will be available for sale. Bring your family, friends, and your family’s friends and neighbors to this fine evening of fellowship and fun!

We now accept Visa, MasterCard, and Discover – so bring your Yule Shopping List, as well as your own Wish List!

Tentative schedule:

From 7 – 8, there is hot music, bright food, and more snacking and silent auction bidding. Any silent auction item that gets 3 bids goes into the suspense-filled LIVE Auction!

From 8 – 9: 20? or so: the LIVE Auction wherein our Lovely and/or Dashing Spokes-models will show you the coveted items and you can bid fiercely against your nemesis – or you best friend. (All for the cause, of course!)

9:30 – 9:55: More excellent live performances while the Silent Auction continues. Items that did not get 3 bids before the Live Auction break will be openopen for bidding until 9:55!

10:00 – RAFFLE DRAWING! See our posts for descriptions of our deliciously decadent Raffle Gift Baskets. More info to come!

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Tween & Teen Esbat Group – 11/11/17


The Tween and Teen Esbat group will meet for our public ritual on Saturday 11th November at 6pm. $5 suggested donation

A small pot luck will follow ritual. Because we meet at a traditional dinner time, making sure you and your kids have a little snack before you arrive is a good idea. Please no soda, nuts, peanuts, or candy. Bring a cold dish or something in a crock pot.

This public event is open to families with children aged 10 to 18 who are interested in taking part in rituals. Many of the tweens who participate take turns as the high priest or priestess of the evening, working with one of the adults running the group.

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Open Samhain Circle – 10/28/2017

Join the SEF for their Open Samhain Circle!!

Saturday October 28, Doors open 6 PM
At:     Unitarian Church of Marlborough and Hudson, 80 Main St., Hudson, MA
Fee:  SEF Members $5 / Nonmembers $10

Join us for a Norse celebration of ancestors – the Alfar and Disir –  for this year’s SEF Samhain celebration. Participants will toast their ancestors and give offerings in their honor. We will follow ritual with a Norse feast and a table set aside for the Alfar and Disir. The evening wraps up with burning our offerings outdoors and dispersing them to the elements.

Our feast will be a potluck so please bring a crockpot or fully prepared dish to share.  We’ll supply cups, plates, eating utensils, and beverages. (No alcohol please). All adults are welcome, and no experience is necessary. For families with children under 16, we suggest the Pagan Family Connection Samhain celebration on October 22 in Grafton.

Doors open at 6pm, doors will close and the pre-ritual discussion will begin at 7pm.

  • This will be a serious magickal / spiritual working for all involved, and as such is not appropriate for children.

 

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Pagan Family Connection Samhain – 10/22/2017

Join the Pagan Family Connection Families as we Celebrate Samhain!

Sunday October 22, 1 – 3 PM: Family Samhain Celebration
At: Brigham Hill Community Farm, 37 Wheeler Road, North Grafton 01536
Fee: $5 per craft item. Adults are welcome to make crafts too.

The PFC honors the Sabbats with mythology, stories, games, snacks, a craft and a child friendly ritual. While we endeavor to come up with crafts for little hands and all abilities, all parents are expected to work along with their child during the craft.

Parents must stay with their kids. If your child has specific food allergies, please bring your own snack. All are welcome – not only those with kids!

In keeping with the theme of Norse mythology for 2017, we will celebrate a Winter Nights ritual. We shall annouce (and toast) our accomplishments for the year. Big or small – if you are proud of what you have done or are working on, we will raise a cup of herbal tea to you! The ritual ties in what we did at Imbolc (The Charming of the Plow) as well as our Lammas ritual (FreyrFest), all while honoring the Disir.

Our craft is brought to us by the suggestion of some of the children in the group. We will be making more God and Goddess figures (with their familiars). In spring we made Ostara and her hare wood figures. Our craft for Samhain will be to choose from several different Gods and Goddesses and their familiars. Photos of examples for inspiration will be coming soon!

Directions: Brigham Hill Community Farm, Grafton

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Tween & Teen Esbat Group – 10/14/17


The Tween and Teen Esbat group will meet for our public ritual on Saturday 14th October at 6pm. $5 suggested donation

A small pot luck will follow ritual. Because we meet at a traditional dinner time, making sure you and your kids have a little snack before you arrive is a good idea. Please no soda, nuts, peanuts, or candy. Bring a cold dish or something in a crock pot.

This public event is open to families with children aged 10 to 18 who are interested in taking part in rituals. Many of the tweens who participate take turns as the high priest or priestess of the evening, working with one of the adults running the group.

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Fall Contra Dance Featuring Dudley Laufman – 10/6/2017


Fall Contra Dance
Date: Friday, October 6, 2017
$5 entrance fee

The Society of Elder Faiths, along with the Unitarian Church of Marlborough and Hudson, is hosting its first Contra Dance!  The dance is being held at the Unitarian Church.  Click here for directions.

A Saturday evening of dancing featuring the fantastic live music of the Contra Banditos (one of our favorite coffehouse acts!) with caller Dudley Laufman.

No experience necessary – all dances will be taught and called. Families are welcome, no partner needed! 

Doors open at 7pm
Dance begins at 8pm

Ice water and snacks/treats will be available at no charge during the intermission.

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Pagan Family Annual Apple Picking at Tougas Farms – 9/17/2017

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Join the Pagan Families for an afternoon of apple picking and fun at Tougas Farm in Northborough, MA on Sunday 17 September at 1 pm.

This is not a ritual and craft day. This is a time to hang out and pick fruit and go on a tractor ride together. We end our afternoon by watching the kids on the playground and chatting.

We don’t use any signage to indicate who we are, as this is a busy public place. So if this is your first time joining the Pagan Families for an event, please message us here.

Click here for the Tougas Farms Website

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Tween & Teen Esbat Group – 9/9/2017


The Tween and Teen Esbat group will meet for our public ritual on Saturday 9th of September at 6pm. $5 suggested donation

A small pot luck will follow ritual. Because we meet at a traditional dinner time, making sure you and your kids have a little snack before you arrive is a good idea. Please no soda, nuts, peanuts, or candy. Bring a cold dish or something in a crock pot.

This public event is open to families with children aged 10 to 18 who are interested in taking part in rituals. Many of the tweens who participate take turns as the high priest or priestess of the evening, working with one of the adults running the group.